Word: wasserstein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wendy Wasserstein...
...portrait of a generation, Wendy Wasserstein's new play is more documentary than drama, evoking fictionally all the right times and places but rarely attaining much thorny particularity about the people who inhabit them. The plot, such as it is, often seems like an unconscious cartoon of feminist dialectic. Two men stay close to the title character through the years: a pediatrician who is handsome, earnest, dedicated, kind, politically correct from a left-wing perspective and irreversibly gay, and a heterosexual who is grasping, impatient, domineering, shallow, as undependable as quicksilver and, for Heidi, sexually irresistible. This is the there...
...HEIDI CHRONICLES. Playwright Wendy Wasserstein revisits the rise and fall of principle among baby boomers, and star Joan Allen makes the stereotypes come touchingly alive, off-Broadway...
...HEIDI CHRONICLES. Playwright Wendy Wasserstein revisits the rise and fall of principle among baby boomers, and star Joan Allen makes the stereotypes come touchingly alive, off-Broadway...
Even before Black Monday, the First Boston investment firm's go-go days had gone. In late 1986 the company's traders lost $100 million in the Treasury bond market. Last February the firm's prized merger-and-acquisition specialists, Bruce Wasserstein and Joseph Perella, defected to start their own firm, taking 16 staffers with them...